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Comment Re:There is already a perfectly good free DBMS (Score 2, Informative) 371

mysql> create table blurb (foo datetime);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into blurb (foo) values ("hello world");
ERROR 1292 (22007): Incorrect datetime value: 'hello world' for column 'foo' at row 1

No problems with invalid data types if you bother to RTFM and setup the config properly. (It's not hard. Just turn strict mode on.)
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The Perfect Way To Slice a Pizza 282

iamapizza writes "New Scientist reports on the quest of two math boffins for the perfect way to slice a pizza. It's an interesting and in-depth article; 'The problem that bothered them was this. Suppose the harried waiter cuts the pizza off-center, but with all the edge-to-edge cuts crossing at a single point, and with the same angle between adjacent cuts. The off-center cuts mean the slices will not all be the same size, so if two people take turns to take neighboring slices, will they get equal shares by the time they have gone right round the pizza — and if not, who will get more?' This is useful, of course, if you're familiar with the concept of 'sharing' a pizza."
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WoW Gamer Earns Federal Investigation Achievement 167

barnyjr writes "A teenager could face federal charges after investigators say he made online threats to kill Americans on a plane from Indianapolis to Chicago. According to investigators, a monitor of the online interactive game World of Warcraft saw the alleged threats in an on-line chat and called Johnson County authorities. She told investigators the chatter didn't seem like a game." I'm not sure who's crazier, this guy or the guy who just became the first World of Warcraft player to rack up 10,000 achievement points.

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